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[swiss1939]

And that littler f*kr ate my largest feather duster hitchhiker. I've tried the glass cup method but he seems to be able to get out of it, cause my rock is not tall enough to get a steep enough angle to prevent his escape.

 

[BristleWormHater]

And that littler f*kr ate my largest feather duster hitchhiker. I've tried the glass cup method but he seems to be able to get out of it, cause my rock is not tall enough to get a steep enough angle to prevent his escape.

If theres no sandbed in your tank what's stopping you from just moving the rocks to catch him?
Feather duster may not be dead. They build their tubes pretty deep into the substrate they are on, their tubes are usaully build into a hole in the rock. My hermit crabs frequently go after my feather dusters tubes but they just rebuild them later.

 

[swiss1939]

I saw it dead after the fact on the glass bottom, and then watched him eat it. Ha.

 

[BristleWormHater]

I saw it dead after the fact on the glass bottom, and then watched him eat it. Ha.

Ah, ok

 

[swiss1939]

Finally caught the murderer and removed it from my tank. I waited a month for it to be starving. And then I put a clam in my net and left the net in front of his lair. 25 min later.. offender removed. The other less aggressive one I caught easily a week ago when he tried to climb the canister filter inlet to get at my clown fish that sleeps next to it. Scooped that one up easily with the net. Both of the aggressive crabs were a millimeter or two when I first noticed them, and grew to be larger then a quarter thorax in maybe two months. This was the one that ate my large feather duster. Now I got one or two small ones that are hiding in holes in rocks. One might be a pom pom crab.

 

[swiss1939]

Ok so I figured out one of the two remaining tiny crabs is a porcelain crab. I never got a full shot of this guy but I kept seeing him with his netting arms underneath a rock. Thought he might be a lobster or something but since I have bare bottom, I got under and looked up at him to see he was a crab. Checked with TBS hitchhiker guide to confirm.

The other one is another nasty gorilla crab that I need to wait till he gets larger and can't hide in his holes. Then I'll catch and remove him. Porcelain crab can stay.

 

[swiss1939]

The older this rock gets, the more you see things growing out of it. These are interesting. Looks like some hybrid feather duster tubes with scallop looking fans. Three tiny ones right next to each other.

Also almost lost the oculuna robusta that came on my rock. It started losing tissue on a few heads last two weeks and I spent a week changing water and vacuuming the floor like 5x to bring the high phosphates down. Still high, but it seems to have arrested the tissue loss. Added a Santa Monica algae scrubber to help reduce phosphates cause my nitrates are near zero.